Industrial Designer Luigi Colani died at the age of 91

[Urwumpe]

Maybe some people outside Germany know him as well. He was mostly into highly streamlined cars, but also designed one of the first Wankel engine aircraft. His PC case design was a common thing in Germany during the 1990s.

https://www.dw.com/en/luigi-colanis-round-world-of-design/g-50444436

 

[Ripley]

This sentence could be of particular interest here:

...his design can be summed up in this thought: "The earth is round - Colani explained - all the heavenly bodies are round; they all move in circles or in elliptical orbits. Why should I join the mass that wants to do everything angular? I will undertake the philosophy of Galilei: my world is also round ".

From:
https://www.repubblica.it/motori/se..._colani_il_salvator_dali_dell_auto-236154429/